Abstract
To achieve a high level of safety, the design of French nuclear power plants embodies conventional principles intended to avoid or minimize the effects of common cause failures:
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redundancy,
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diversity,
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the fail-safe principle,
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channel separation,
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maintenance policy,
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automation.
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Meslin, T. (1989). Measures Taken at Design Level to Counter Common Cause Failures. A Few Comments Concerning the Approach of EDF. In: Amendola, A. (eds) Advanced Seminar on Common Cause Failure Analysis in Probabilistic Safety Assessment. ISPRA Courses on Reliability and Risk Analysis, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0629-2_7
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